Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, Volume 1Print. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 - Ireland |
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... indictment to a grand jury . I do not mean by this to say , that informations ex officio are always oppressive or unjust , but I cannot but observe to you , that when a petty jury is called upon to try a charge not previously found by ...
... indictment to a grand jury . I do not mean by this to say , that informations ex officio are always oppressive or unjust , but I cannot but observe to you , that when a petty jury is called upon to try a charge not previously found by ...
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... objection they were of opinion , that it came too late that permitting the testimony of a witness to be impeached after trial , would be a general invitation to such } perjury as could not be punished by indictment ; and ROWAN'S TRIAL .
... objection they were of opinion , that it came too late that permitting the testimony of a witness to be impeached after trial , would be a general invitation to such } perjury as could not be punished by indictment ; and ROWAN'S TRIAL .
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... indictment ; and that if would be contrary to all former precedents . See 7 Mod . 54 . 1 Term Rep . 7. 17. and 2 Term Rep . 1. 13 . The second objection , to a juryman , the court were of opinion was completely removed by the authority ...
... indictment ; and that if would be contrary to all former precedents . See 7 Mod . 54 . 1 Term Rep . 7. 17. and 2 Term Rep . 1. 13 . The second objection , to a juryman , the court were of opinion was completely removed by the authority ...
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... indictment is grounded on the statute of Edward III . By that statute , confirming the com- mon law , to imagine , design , or compass the death of the king , is made high treason ; the only instance where a crime intended , and not ...
... indictment is grounded on the statute of Edward III . By that statute , confirming the com- mon law , to imagine , design , or compass the death of the king , is made high treason ; the only instance where a crime intended , and not ...
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... indictment , that of compassing the death of the king . It is not necessary that the person accused intended to put the king actually to death ; but if any thing which might in its consequences produce that effect , he is guilty of the ...
... indictment , that of compassing the death of the king . It is not necessary that the person accused intended to put the king actually to death ; but if any thing which might in its consequences produce that effect , he is guilty of the ...
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Page 240 - ... heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death — a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no force resist, no antidote prevent. There was an antidote — a juror's oath — but even that adamantine chain that bound the integrity of man to the throne of eternal justice, is solved and melted in the breath that issues from the informer's mouth ; conscience swings from her mooring, and the appalled...
Page 22 - That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 7 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 233 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm, In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 95 - ... advocate of society, therefore — of peace — of domestic liberty — and the lasting union of the two countries — I conjure you to guard the liberty of the press, that great sentinel of the state, that grand detector of public imposture; guard it, because, when it sinks, there sinks with it, in one common grave, the liberty of the subject, and the security of the crown.
Page 95 - ... that memorable period, when the monarch found a servile acquiescence in the ministers of his folly ; when the liberty of the press was trodden under foot ; when venal sheriffs returned packed juries to carry into effect those fatal conspiracies of the few against the many ; when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while...
Page 52 - Ireland, discontents, jealousies and suspicions of our Lord the King and his government, and disaffection and disloyalty to the person and government of our said Lord the King, and to raise very dangerous seditions and tumults within...
Page 84 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body...
Page 339 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 21 - MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, WE thank you for your noble and spirited, though hitherto ineffectual efforts, in defence of the great constitutional and commercial rights of your country. Go on. The almost unanimous voice of the people is with you ; and in a, free country the voice of the people must prevail. We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights ; and, in so just a pursuit, we should...